PocketLab Launches Two Rugged Science Labs That Fit in the Palm of Your Hand

PocketLab — a platform that enables hands-on science investigations through easy-to-use, inexpensive wireless sensors and apps — has taken to Kickstarter to launch their latest set of rugged, palm-sized science labs.

The PocketLab Voyager and PocketLab Weather are new multi-sensors for conducting experiments on climate change, rocket launches, robotics, and much, much more. Tens of thousands of users in more than 45 countries are already using PocketLab in Maker projects and science experiments. Now, the PocketLab Voyager and PocketLab Weather will further give kids, parents, teachers, Makers and the simply curious, the ability to answer questions about the world around them.

The PocketLab Voyager is an all-in-one science lab that measures motion and position, magnetic fields, light, pressure, altitude, humidity, temperature, and more. Attach PocketLab Voyager to a drone to measure the altitude and vibrations during a flight, put it inside a football to measure the rotation of a spiral throw, design and build rubber-band cars and measure their speed during a race — with PocketLab Voyager, science exploration is only limited by your imagination.

The PocketLab Weather is a compact weather center that can measure temperature, humidity, light, barometric pressure, heat index, and dew point. Build a weather balloon and use PocketLab Weather to gather climate data as it travels for days through the sky, discover why lightning strikes by observing changes in atmospheric data during a storm — with PocketLab Weather, you can be a true citizen scientist, contributing your data and discoveries to global experiments on weather and climate change.

What’s more, you can connect any PocketLab device to Scratch for programming activities, as well as control LEGO motors and code robots to move. The PocketLab Voyager and PocketLab Weather even work with the Google Science Journal App, and its open Bluetooth protocol enables communication with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other Maker platforms.

Ready to start exploring? Both PocketLab Voyager and PocketLab Weather are available for pre-order on Kickstarter.